What Dave Portnoy finds most ‘shocking' about the Bill Belichick-Jordon Hudson situation
Dave Portnoy called Bill Belichick's current situation 'shocking' and said he feels the whole thing is like 'living in a bizarro world.'
Speaking on SiriusXM's 'The Megyn Kelly Show, the Barstool Sports founder described his surprise at how things have played out after Belichick's awkward interview on 'CBS Sunday Morning,' which was highlighted by his 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson interrupting a question about the beginnings of their relationship.
Since the interview aired over the weekend, Hudson's presence has come into question, and it has put the future Hall of Fame coach in the spotlight off of the field.
'It's just it's such a juxtaposition of a guy who seemingly had no media savvy, but was always just straightforward, no time for the media, now having his life run by a [24-year-old]. It certainly is eye-opening for a guy like me,' Portnoy said during the appearance.
4 Dave Portnoy discussed Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson with Megyn Kelly.
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Hudson has pushed back on the criticism she's received in the wake of the interview, posting a blistering email that Belichick sent out on April 10 about the first round of media regarding his new book, 'The Art of Winning.'
Belichick put out a statement Wednesday through the University of North Carolina, where he took over as the head football coach in December.
4 Bill Belichick's CBS interview took an awkward turn.
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4 Jordon Hudson stopped a line of questioning during the interview.
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The statement alleged that CBS News used 'selective editing' to push a 'false narrative' about Hudson and defended her over interruptions during the interview.
Portnoy, however, claimed he wasn't entirely convinced that the statement was free of Hudson's influence.
'In my years following Bill Belichick, I would say my knowledge of him, there's roughly 0 percent chance he wrote that. But he just doesn't care generally what anyone thinks about him. So to go write that, that, my guess would be Jordon wrote that,' the Barstool Sports founder said on the radio show.
He added later: 'It's just so strange in this long email, crazy. The public statement. Crazy. But I'm not even sure he knows that was written. He may not. He may not. I really don't know.'
During his interview with Kelly and during his 'Unnamed Show' podcast on Barstool Sports, Portnoy said he believed Hudson was running the show.
But Portnoy responded 'no' when he was asked on the podcast if it was 'clear that she was crazy.'
4 North Carolina Tar Heels football head coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend Jordon Hudson look on during the first half of the game between the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Duke Blue Devils at Dean E. Smith Center on March 08, 2025 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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CBS News, in a statement of its own, denied Belichick's assertions that there had been an agreement to focus only on topics involving the coach's book.
'When we agreed to speak with Mr. Belichick, it was for a wide-ranging interview,' the statement read. 'There were no preconditions or limitations to this conversation. This was confirmed repeatedly with his publisher before the interview took place and after it was completed.'
Portnoy at one point defended CBS, mentioning how the quote about Hudson being Belichick's 'muse' is 'in the book.'
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